“Military necessity does not admit of cruelty...nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions.”

Abraham LincolnInstructions for the Government of Armies of the United States

Advisors

Our advisors play an essential role in developing the Refuge Media Project’s message and approach, and will help to guide our outreach strategy for the completed films. Current advisors include:

Roz Dzelzitis, Associate Producer with the Refuge Media Project, 2008-10. Executive Director of May I Speak Freely Media and a member of the board of directors of BAIDO, an association of San Francisco Bay Area international development organizations.

Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director of the Emory University Institute of Human Rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, and faculty advisor to Emory’s Student Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Action.

Richard Mollica, MD, and James Lavelle, LICSW, co-founders of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Mollica is HPRT’s Director and the author of Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World. Lavelle is HPRT’s Director of International Programs and Community Organizing.

Samantha Morse, former Asylum Program Coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights.